Bern, KS 66408 Frost Dates
Bern, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Bern sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Bern's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bern's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bern against the rest of the dataset
Bern's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,096 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 624 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66408's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bern's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bern can differ from the 66408 normal.